how about this? Plan A: we contact the manufacturers, and hope that works. Plan B: we purchase a review.demo unit and install VL on it. and publish our own review. that way we can share in revenue from the hardware sales originating on our site. Plan C: some how come up with money for Plan B

well basically, if we demonstrate on one unit that we are much better than Xubuntu etc.. i hope the manufacturers will wake up and smell the coffee